Angels

Angels are an ancient race whose history reaches back to the dawn of human civilization and whose fate is inseparable from the origin of mana, the Infinity Machine, and the world’s repeated catastrophes. Their defining significance lies in the contradiction at their center: they appear as divine beings who can fly, wield extraordinary power, and shape history, yet they are also data-linked organisms subject to technological classification, mass elimination, replication, and experimental control. The story ultimately turns that contradiction into a question of inheritance, as Jack becomes a new angel while Michael’s attempt to manufacture a perfect future is rejected.

Ancient Race and Celestial Authority

Sahaqiel provides the clearest account of the Angels’ antiquity and status. When challenged to identify herself, she names herself Sahaqiel Riah Ereshikal Vel Lunet Ter Hess Tia Estelle, an Awakened from the dawn of mankind’s civilization, and describes herself as the first being to fly and touch the sky. Her self-presentation combines personal identity, primordial age, and physical proof: her form glows, her wings beat, and her eyes shine with iridescent power. To the assembled officers, she is not merely an unusually strong Awakened. Selfia therefore declares that Sahaqiel is a goddess using Jack as her vessel and orders the officers to treat her words as they would treat the queen’s own authority.

The Angels also possess a political history rather than existing only as isolated supernatural creatures. Sahaqiel remembers Michael as a beacon of light during their age, the chief enforcer of Heaven and their leader. After the cataclysmic war, Michael gathered the survivors, gave them purpose, and directed their reconstruction of the world. That history explains why his influence extends beyond a single faction: the Theocracy, the Alliance, and the Empire are all secretly under an Archangel’s control. The old angelic order has therefore survived not as a visible kingdom, but as a hidden structure operating through human governments and expeditions.

Catastrophe, Elimination, and Resurrection

The ancient Angels suffered a deliberate technological purge. Sahaqiel explains that the Infinity Machine reads the world’s data flow and translates it into what living beings call mana. In her analogy, the machine is a giant server and router through which the world is connected. During the original outbreak, its operators reversed the flow of mana and selected a spectrum of data designed to eliminate beings capable of using it.

The first targeting sequence was deliberately broad. The survivors did not yet understand the disaster and feared that mana capability would spread or bring about another catastrophe, so they stripped potential from people carrying the relevant genes and eliminated those who might produce true Awakened. The policy was not a battle between armies but a species-level act of classification, in which the machine converted ancestry and magical potential into grounds for removal. Angels and demonspawn were among the beings marked for destruction, leaving the later existence of Sahaqiel and other angelic figures as a central historical contradiction.

Sahaqiel claims that the machine can now be aimed more narrowly, at demonspawn and pure-blooded Angels alone. This refinement turns the old catastrophe into a renewed threat. Jack recognizes that he and his children may fit the criteria, while everyone present understands that the proposed solution would demand a sacrifice from the two beings who qualify as angelic. The Angels’ survival is thus never secure: even after their ancient destruction, their continued existence remains vulnerable to the same system that once erased them.

Memory, Experiment, and Michael’s Design

The Angels’ past is also preserved as traumatic memory. Jack experiences images belonging to Sahaqiel in which former friends such as Tarhanna, Athena, and Ares are brought down and then rise again as abominations. Sahaqiel identifies these transformed beings as the Apostles, linking the monstrous forces threatening the present to the destruction and corruption of her old companions. The recollection makes the Angels’ history tangible not as a noble legend, but as a sequence of bodies defeated, altered, and returned in hostile form.

Michael’s relationship to the Angels is consequently both paternal and coercive. In the final confrontation, he explains that an angel can arise only when a being with the necessary potential undergoes an outburst of extreme emotion. He tells Jack that he made him and insists that obedience to his vision would have produced a perfect world. The statement reveals that Jack’s angelic emergence was not simply an accidental awakening in Michael’s eyes; it belonged to a program of creation, control, and ideological correction. Michael treats angelhood as something that can be engineered through inherited potential and deliberately induced emotional extremity.

Jack rejects that design. Although Michael claims authorship over his transformation, Jack answers that Michael is wrong to believe the cycle will continue. The exchange separates angelic power from Michael’s authority over it. An Angel may be produced through the conditions Michael describes, but the resulting being is not thereby obliged to become the instrument of his imagined perfection.

Jack and the Birth of a New Angel

Jack’s transformation marks the first new angelic birth in forty thousand years. While confronting the corruption that has consumed Jill, he reaches a point where grief, desperation, and madness alter his entire morphology to match the fracturing world around him. The System announces that he has completed the tutorial, and brilliant gold-and-white energy erupts from his body. Michael watches with delight and declares that a new angel has finally been born after forty thousand years, while ancient malevolent beings and forgotten gods stir across the globe in response.

The transformation is later confirmed as more than a temporary power-up. Six months after the battlefield trauma forced his evolution, Jack is described as a full-fledged angel who no longer needs Eve’s curse, the System, in order to imitate magic. He can act without that external crutch, though the interface remains useful for monitoring his strength, skills, health, mana, and Ruby’s condition. His angelhood therefore changes the relation between body and technology: the system becomes an instrument he consults rather than the source on which his capabilities depend.

The story repeatedly frames angelic change through interfaces and status readouts. Jack’s Angel System reaches Level 10 and identifies him as a Nephilim, with enhanced regeneration and mana synthesis. Later, when he seeks a power capable of saving those on the brink of destruction, the system unlocks a Radiant Skill and then makes an Anti-Army Class Skill available. These notices translate an existential transformation into a sequence of readable permissions, but the emotional circumstances behind them remain irreducibly personal. The machine can announce the result; it cannot replace the anguish that produces it.

Inheritance, Kinship, and Narrative Significance

The meaning of angelic inheritance extends into family life. Celeste’s birth certificate bears Celeste’s name alongside Jack’s and Selfia’s, making a simple paper the document that changes the trajectory of Jack’s daughter’s life and establishes her as First Princess Celeste Cordelica. The scene places bloodline, legal identity, and royal succession beside the larger question of what traits or powers pass from one generation to the next. Celeste is treated as a child within a family and as a political heir within an empire, while the Angels’ history makes every question of descent potentially dangerous.

That tension is visible in the language of parenthood. Celeste calls Selfia “Mommy” while twirling in a white sundress, and Leona feels the weight of the child addressing someone else as her mother. Later, during an Imperial emergency, Jack struggles to get Celeste to school while carrying a crying baby boy, embodying the ordinary labor of fatherhood amid a national attack. Ito likewise attributes a mischievous act to what “Daddy said,” showing how angelic or political authority is filtered through children’s understanding of family instructions. These domestic scenes do not make the Angels ordinary; they show what is at stake when ancient power enters ordinary kinship.

Angelic identity also intersects with political violence. Jack asks for a call of surrender before the assault on Roland forces, requests a unit to receive and house prisoners, and accepts that operational command belongs to Admiral Skirita rather than to him. Yet he can also execute an enemy leader after learning of that man’s complicity in raising an army in Michael’s name. Angelic power thus does not yield a single moral code. It magnifies the burden of choosing between mercy, military necessity, punishment, and protection.

At the end, Jack publicly commands the Angel System to awaken. Golden interfaces appear before the gathered survivors, but his version is labeled Administrator, unlike the systems beside him. The display recalls the old machine’s power to classify, connect, and govern, while also suggesting that Jack has seized a position above the inherited rules. Angels are therefore not merely remnants of a lost celestial species. They are the living junction where myth becomes data, trauma becomes transformation, and inherited systems may either reproduce Michael’s cycle or be placed under a different will.